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I use a variety of pumpkins/squash for baking with great success. However some pumpkins are much tastier than others. I have used Boston Marrow, Long Neck pumpkins, Kobacha, Pink Banana. I remember one which was yellow and boring and even after baked didn't have much flavor.
I think I remember a Cinderella pumpkin as a rather flat pumpkin with deeply lobed sides like the pumpkin used to make Cinderella's coach. I can't remember what it tasted like but the grower and google claimed it was an old French cooking pumpkin.
I like to go to the Farmer's market and buy different varieties, always asking if the pumpkin is mainly decorative or mainly for cooking. All pumpkins/squashes are theoretically edible. I was told that the common jack-o-lantern pumpkins are coarse fleshed and watery without much taste.
Google said that pumpkins and winter squash are the same species or at least closely related enough to interbreed freely.When you talk about bread board do you mean something like this?
https://www.fantes.com/fantes-wooden-pastry-board-28x22-inchI've admired these but don't have the storage space. I currently use a tupperware plastic sheet made for rolling out pie crusts. It gives me a clean surface to knead large amounts of dough and its easier to wash and store. I knead smaller amounts of dough on a large plastic cutting board. Again a cleaner surface than my counter top.
I've always peeled the apples for apple pie and breads even when the recipe says its not necessary. Peeled apples are easier to cut, and many bruises are just under the skin and easier to see and removed from peeled apples.
I hope you enjoy your apples. What do they taste like.One thing about that video, I've come to realize that I need to cook my pie crusts a lot more! I stop when they are lightly brown, but the video shows the pie another shade darker.
I was wondering about the lemon filling as far as cornstarch vs flour. I've seen comparisons with different thickeners for fruit pie fillings, not so much for pudding type fillings. Judging from the video, the pie filling needs to be cooked until thick several times but I can't see why over mixing is a problem.Fine cooking is a tease! It said there are problems with lemon meringue pie if it is undercooked, over cooked, starchy, but doesn't really explain about these problems and how to avoid them. Is a pie filling cooked when its thick? How do you tell when its overcooked?
undercooked? Is there a difference between flour and cornstarch?Chocomouse, I envy you your blueberry bushes. The blueberry season is ending here, I couldn't get blueberries in the Farmer's market last week. I baked blueberry scones with the last blueberries on August 27th and just ate the last ones today.
Do you find it hard to defend your blueberries from the birds?I'm eating through the lemon meringue pie which is in the refrigerator. It seems to be emitting a liquid as it ages. Anyone know what causes this?
I'm not sure whether to go on my fourth blind baking pie crust trial or not. I'd like to get a nice flaky crust. What other sort of pies use a prebaked crust? I'm almost through with the lemon juice.I love the pictures of the eclipse cookies! I had a 80% eclipse and saw it from work. I didn't have time to build a pinhole box but was able to look through other peoples' boxes and a coworker's really high grade wielder's glasses.
Yes I was trying to use two pie pans for blind baking. I had picked them up in a thrift store, they are similiar size and a heavy metal, but the inside pie pan is perforated. This is the first time I tried blind baking with this technique and I wasn't impressed with the results.
This mornings pie shell slid to the bottom despite having been well pricked and going from the refrigerator to a very hot oven. I thought that the first failed attempt was caused by an oven at only 325 degrees and resolved to try again at 400 degrees.
The pie crust was rather thick. I used all the dough ( 1 1/2 cups flour ) in the crust instead of rolling it thin, and discarding the extra. Would a blind pie crust have worked better if it was thinner?
I did the KA Lemon Meringue again but used corn starch instead of flour, and 1/3 cup lemon juice instead of 1/4 cup. It isn't notably prettier with corn starch instead of flour. The lemon meringue filling was fine and pretty.
I want to try blind baking again, but will have to wait for another cold snap. How much beans will be needed if I try that route? Do the beans have to fill the pie crust?
Maybe I will try the two pie pan method and use parchment paper to prevent sticking.I did another lemon meringue pie with buttermilk crust the week before last. The crust was better. I handled it less and added less liquid and refrigerated before baking. I basically did a half recipe with 1 1/2 cups of white flour, 1/2 cup butter and about 6 tablespoons of buttermilk. I mixed it, refrigerated the dough, rolled it out and placed it back in the refrigerator before baking. However I tried a new method suggested by Susan Purdy in her pie book. I placed a pie pan upside down and put the rolled pie crust on top of it, then I covered it with another pie pan and put the whole thing in a deep dish pizza pan instead of a baking sheet. This has the pie crust sandwiched between two pie pans. I was suppose to be able to bake this for half the time, and then flip it over, take out the internal pie pan, and finish baking it.
Well this didn't work as planned, mainly because the pie crust stuck to the internal pie pan and wouldn't come loose. I had to bake the pie crust nearly completely and than carefully pry them apart. And then finish baking it. The crust was crisp and golden in the middle but a little too hard and brown at the edges. And it wasn't as pretty since I couldn't do a pretty fluted edge and the rim had broken in places.
I plan to try this again tonight, but this time use a normal pie pan and bend the edges over the rim to keep it from sliding down. Also I will keep this refrigerated until the time to put it in a very hot oven. I think not being in a pie pan sandwich will let it be softer and lighter.
I used the KA 200 Anniversery lemon meringue which is made with boiling water, and flour not corn starch. The boiling water makes the lemon filling cook faster than using cold water which made for less time standing over a hot stove. Very important two weeks ago as it was hot even late at night and I needed the air conditioner on all the time. The lemon filling tasted ok, but not as lemony as the recipe by Susan Purdy. It had slightly less lemon juice 1/4 instead of 1/3.
I think I will have to look for still another lemon meringue recipe, I want more lemon flavor but also appreciate the speed of using boiling water.Two weeks ago it a cold spell I did a double batch of blueberry scones, and a lemon meringue pie. I reread the directions that BakerAunt gave for the buttermilk pie crust and it turned out much batter. The blueberry scones were well received. I used the lemon meringue pie recipe from KA 200th Anniversery cookbook, it used boiling water and was faster than the last recipe but not as lemony.
On Monday I did blueberry scones -- its more like a muffin recipe, but baked in a small cast iron frying pan and cut into wedges, and today I did a zuchinni pizza with cheese topping.
Thanks! This is the sort of help I needed. There are surprisingly a couple different recipes for yeast based pie crusts. King Arthur Flour used one for their Italian Easter Pie which was eggs and cheese and ham. I ran into another one decades ago when I first looked into low fat pie crusts. This was low fat but more like having apple pie filling beteen two slices of bread. This didn't appeal to me then, but it might appeal more now.
I hope to try some of your kind suggestions soon.I did an apple pie in my favorite cast iron pan. This is a tried and true recipe for me, it doesn't look pretty but is always well received. I also did a zuchinni cornbread, that started with an all corn Southern cornbread, but substitued grated zuchinni for the buttermilk. This was made for a vegan friend who was going to be at the same party. I was surprised at how willing other people were to eat it. I thought that Fran who combines raw food veganism with a desire to avoid gluten would be the only person to like it. I think that the whole gluten free fad is silly, especially for people who not only aren't allergic but genuinely like bagels.
I also did a whole wheat rosemary focaccio which was boring but useful. Its been too hot to do much baking in general, but last weekend was fairly pleasant.BakerAunt;
I wish I had read your recipe for buttermilk pie crust before I started. Most of my problem with the pie crust came from thinking it was too dry and adding more buttermilk. Why do you like this recipe? I am on a sort of buttermilk kick for the last year since I found out how easy it was to culture your own buttermilk. I have used it in all sorts of baked goods but the pie crust isn't as easy as quick breads and pancakes. I want to try buttermilk pie crust at least one more time but I dont think its going to be a regular part of my reportor. -
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